The Richmond Oval was the speed skating venue for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. It was called the “crown jewel” of the games by NBC’s Katie Couric and was recently designated as one of the 50 most influential sport buildings designed in the last 50 years. It is the only one of these notable facilities to be located in North America. The Oval has many design innovations including: its programing and pro-forma process, its execution, its site response, its sustainable design strategies and its iconic form along the Frazier River in British Columbia. Most notably its structural solution resulted in the largest wood roof ever constructed. This long span structure covers a space that can hold three 747’s and it is primarily fabricated from beetle killed 2x4’s.Its lessons are still current a decade after the games.
Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, participants will be able to: Describe how the design of a building “before the games”, a building “during the games” and a building “after the games” is a useful mindset when design flexible and sustainable buildings that are required to change; Describe how having a mindset of “beginning where you want to end” influenced the programing, pro-forma and execution of the building; Describe how the combined technical challenges of poor soils, internal humidity, ventilation, process loads for making ice, daylight, tsunami potential and spectator comfort influenced and informed the sustainable design strategies; and describe how the largest wood roof ever built was conceived and executed.
Speaker: W.Kenneth Wiremen, AIA - Design Principal, Cannon Design
Credits: 1.5 HSW|LUs
Presented On Demand